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Quotes About Humanity

I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
~ Ned Vizzini
Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
~ Ninian Smart
Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.
~ Pope Francis
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
~ Rene Rivkin
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
~ A. J. McLean
In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
~ Abraham Lincoln
trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.
~ Ann Landers
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
~ Bernard Berenson
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
~ Bertrand Russell
It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.
~ Cormac McCarthy
On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.
~ Dalai Lama
When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.
~ Deepak Chopra
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
~ F. LaGard Smith
You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.
~ Michael Moore
I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.
~ Michael Palin
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
~ Neil Gaiman
Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.
~ Nat Hentoff
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
~ Anna Kingsford
Life is life, and kind is kind
~ Jack Kerouac
Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.
~ Julian Morris